Venezuela quake death toll passes 4,300 as scale of recovery effort looms large

Rescuers work atop the rubble of a collapsed building in La Guaira after twin earthquakes struck Venezuela last month. Photograph: Pablo Sanhueza/Reuters

The death toll in Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes has passed 4,300, the government said on Saturday.

At least 4,333 people were killed and 16,740 injured in the back-to-back quakes on 24 June that flattened entire districts in the coastal state of La Guaira, the Venezuelan parliament chief, Jorge Rodríguez, wrote on Telegram. Thousands more people are listed as missing.